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Does the underground economy hold back financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market
Gobbi, Giorgio; Zizza, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
labour on banks’ entry decisions in the local credit markets, now defined in terms of provinces. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744823
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Information costs, networks and intermediation in international trade
Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper presents a pairwise matching model with two-sided information asymmetry to analyse the impact of information costs on endogenous network building and matching by information intermediaries. The framework innovates by examining the role of information costs on incentives for trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745054
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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance
Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745244
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Competing for contacts: network competition, trade intermediation and fragmented duopoly
Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
A two-sided, pair-wise matching model is developed to analyse the strategic interaction between two information intermediaries who compete in commission rates and network size, giving rise to a fragmented duopoly market structure. The model suggests that network competition between information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746133
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Does planning regulation protect independent retailers?
Sadun, Raffaella - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Entry regulations against big-box retailers have been introduced in many countries to protect smaller independent … stores. Using a new dataset from the UK, I show that in fact these entry regulations have been associated with greater … exogenous variation in the ease of entry for big-box retailers. I estimate that 15% of the employment decline experienced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746338
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Geographic concentration and the temporal scope of agglomeration economics: an index decomposition
Wren, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The paper decomposes a geographical concentration index to examine the temporal scope of a spillover, which is the period of time over which one firm’s activity directly affects the location of other firms’ activities. Natural advantages are fixed over reasonably long time periods, but if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125978
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From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival
Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126565
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Market share dynamics and the 'persistence of leadership' debate
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper introduces a novel analysis of the classic “persistence of leadership” question, and applies it to a newly constructed dataset for Japanese manufacturing. The analysis rests on an appeal to an empirical “scaling relationship” between current market share and the variance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071229
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Market share dynamics and the ‘persistence of leadership’ debate
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper introduces a novel analysis of the classic “persistence of leadership” question, and applies it to a newly constructed dataset for Japanese manufacturing. The analysis rests on an appeal to an empirical “scaling relationship” between current market share and the variance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071259
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Repression or civil war?
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744973